Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-01-14
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

W "A60oh AOAAAVOiy oIduuS LWen-
ty-first among the forty-eight States
and Territories in the ranks of wheat
producers.
A new encampment of the l. o. O.
+. is to be organized at Newcastle.
King county. The work will be done
on some evening next week.
1t is understood that Capt. Beecher,
Just appointed Special Agent of the
United States Treasury Department
for this district, will continue to reside
at Port Townsend.
The officials of the Northern Pacific
Land Company in Tacoma say much
land is being sold in Washington Ter
rltory, and predict that immigration
to the prospective State will be large
this year.
The Whatcom Reveine has the fol-
lowing regarding the Postal Telegraph
Company: The line has cost $275 per
mile or $4,000 from Westminster to
Roseburg, Oregon. The line is owned
half by Mackay and Bennett and half
by the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
The Congregational church of this
Territory is represented by 35 clergy
men, "a churches, 64 stations and 2
schools. In the Territory are three
associations-the Puget Sound, Yaki-
ma and Upper Columbia-and part of
fourth, the Middle Columbia. The
membership numbers 1889; 1924
families are under pastoral care, and
$l2,o36 was contributed last year for
all purposes connected with the
church.
Post-Intelligencer: Captain Tarte.
OF the Erangel, remained at New.
westminster on his last trip in order
to have an interview with officials of
the Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany. The result of that interview
was that the captain entered into an
agreement to carry all Puget Sound
freight for the Canadian Pacific to
ports as far south as Tacoma. Under
this new arrangement the Evanoel
will take load from Coal Harbor TO
Whatcom in few days, and from
this on it is expected that the Eyonoel
will be kept busy distributing cargoes
OF freight from that quarter.
Walla Walla Statesman:-when snv
man cuts timber on Government land
he sows the seed for fine crop of law
suits. First, the man who cuts the
logs is tried, and then the saw-mill
man who saws them up is tried, and
next comes up the man who bought
the lumber from the sawmill men.
In the U. s. Circuit Court lately q
verdict were found against I. and s.
Caro-, OF Roseburg for $382.4O, and
against Jas. Cox for $24O, who had
bought lumber from Rowley & Whit
sett, who had cut it from logs that
were cut on government land. There
it is believed, is the end of the suits
on this lot of logs. And nsw
the U. s. Attorney will grid up his
loins and tackle another timber case.
BY the time they are disposed of
Uncle Sam will feel as though some
one had left him fortune in OREGON.
A Seattle daily says: In Seattle
and other parts of King county there
Is large amount of tide lands which
have been piled and staked out by diff
ferent parties. The southern tide fats
in Seattle are placed on the maps of
our city in lots and blocks as this ad-
dition and that addition, but when one
looks for the land he sees nothing but
water at One-quarter tide. The same
can be said of Tacoma. The rapid de-
velopment of the northwest makes
tide lands valuable, as they can be
filled in and made the place of rest for
large mercantile and manufacturing
establishments, as was done in San
Francisco, the water front in that city
being filed in for depth of from four
to eight blocks from what originally
was tide water. The possession of the
tide flats in Seattle and Tacoma is
now agitating the public mind, and
especially has this been the case since
the prospect of Washington Territory
becoming State is so hopeful. Over
flowed and tide lands heretofore, it is
supposed by the common herd, are ne
served by the National Government
until the Territory becomes q State,
and then are given to the new State
for school purposes. For some weeks
six pile drivers have been at work
fencing in the tide flats at the mouth
OF the Puyallup river at Tacoma,
Pierce county, and it seems also they
have crossed Commencement bay into
King county.
MAGNETISM AND HEAr.-Scientists
are now diSCus ,inp the cur;o,,S foc<
that the usual heat produced by fric-
ton is conspicuous by its absence
when the articles are magnetized.
One example described was where a
workman fastened a couple of power
ful magnets to his lathe to hold more
securely piece of metal which he
wished to drill and turn. The pres-